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HAMMOGK AND BBD.

No. 254,677. H Patented Mar. 7,188'2.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MOORE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN SHOREY, OF SAME PLACE. i

HAMMOCK OR BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,677, dated March 7, 1882.

Application tiled December 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern should be thus connected atabout once in two Be it known that I, CHARLES MOORE, of feet of their length, as shown in Fig. 3. Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Com- The cords or ropes B are at each end ofthe monwealth of Massachusetts, have invented hammock caught into a hook, D', formed in certain new and useful lmprovementsin Hamthe end of a spiral spring, D, the other end of mocks or Beds, of which the following is a said spring heilig also providedwith a hook, specification. D', which .hooks into a ring, H. The ringsH 6o My invention relates to a slat bottom for are for the usual purpose ot' being secured to hammocks and beds, to means i'orliexiblycouhooks, staples, or similar stationary supports.

ro necting the slats ot' such bottom together, and The springs D are to make the hammockyield to means for connecting such bottom to a fixed under the weight and movements of the persupport. son restingthereon-that is, to make it elastic 65 ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is in a direction at right angles to the slats, which a plan of a hammock containing my improve? supply sutlicient elasticity iu the other direcments. Fig. 2 is a section ot several slats tion.

through the points at which they are connected Instead of a single spring, D, at each end to each other. Fig. 3 is a plan ot a bed-botof the hammock, two lighter springs may be 7o tom containing said improvements and atused at each end, close to the slats, and the tached to a frame or brdstead. Fig. 4 shows outer ends of these springs may be connected 2o how the slats ofthe hammock may be curved, in any convenient manner to the ring H-say being an edge view of a curved slat. Fig. 5 by ropes. is a cross-section ot' a part of the slats and In the bed-bottom shown in. Fig. 3 the 75 one of the side rails shown in Fig. 3, the secsprings are connected, close to the slats A', to tion being made at any points Where the slats the ropes which connect theyslats,aud to hooks are flexibly connectedand attached to said side L, adapted to ride the side rails of a fra-me, M,

rail. or bedstead, the springs in this ease being' pro- A A', respectively, are the wooden slats vided with hooks at each end, as above de- 8o (though l do not limit myself to the material) scribed. ot' a hammock and bed-b ttom. These slats The springs of the bed-bottom are covered 3o may be curved: so as to be concave on their with acylindrical covering,E,to prevent noise upper surface from end to end, as shown in and marring ot' the frame M. This covering Fig. 4,\vhen used in a hammock, but iu abedshould be Iliade of rubber or other elastic ma- 85 bottom, Fig. 3, should be straight, and in a terial, and the hooks L are also similarly covhammock may be straight, inasmuch as they ered.

will, if made ot' sufficiently elastic material, I claim as my inventionbend under the Weight of the person reclining 1. The combination of the slats A A', proin the hammock, so as to take the form shown vided with holes C, and the ropes B, crossing 9o vin Fig. 4. These slats are connected to each each other in said holes and between said slats,

other by cords or ropes B, which pass through as and for the purpose specified.

4o holes C in said slats, near the ends thereof, 2. The` combination of slats A A', flexibly there being at each end of said slats two ropes, connected together, and the spiral springs D, which cross each other in each hole C, and beas and for the purpose specied. 95 tween each slat, as shown in Fig. 2, the slats 3. The combination ot the spiral spring D being thus held parallel to each other at equal and the elastic covering E, as and for the purintervals, and being -so exbly connected to pose specified.

each other that the connected slats will accom- 4. The combination of the spiral spring D modate themselves at least in one direction and the rubber covering E, as and for the purroo to the shape of the person resting on them. pose specified.

This mode of connecting the slats also prevents 5o the slats slipping out ot' the ropes.

If desired, the slats may be connected to- Witnesses: gether, as above described, at any points in ALBERT M. MOORE, their length, and in bed-bottoms the slats JOHN SHOREY.

CHARLES MOORE. 

